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2. That the Greek and unknown legends onthis 
medal are either of the fame or a fimilar import, 
will be acknowleged by all verfed in this kind of 
literature extremely probable. The Greek and Phoe- 
nician legends on the fame (7) coins of Tyre and 
Sidon, as I have, upon examination, found, and diall 
hereafter more fully evince, clearly correfpond. The 
Latin and Punic legends on Juba’s medals, as has 
been by me formerly proved (8), very well agree. 
The fenfe (9) I have afiigned the legend in unknown 
characters, exhibited by the reverfe of my former Par- 
thian coin, with, I flatter myfelf, fome appearance 
of truth, fufficiently anfwers to the Greek one pre- 
ferved by other medals of the fame prince. We 
may therefore be permitted to fuppofe, that both 
the legends handed down to us by the coin before 
me related to Monnefes, and conveyed the fame, or 
at lead extremely fimilar, ideas to the Parthians and 
the Greeks. Nothing can be more confonant to 
reafon, tho’ we mud not direCtly adume this as a 
podulate, than fuch a fuppodtion. 
3. This notion will likewife receive a farther ac- 
cedion of drength from the characters of which the 
unknown legend is compofed. The fird of them 
fo nearly approaches one of the forms of the Pal- 
(7) Montfauc. ubi fup. p. 1 1 8, 119. Hadrian. Reland. Pa- 
lajlin. Illujirat. Tom. ii. p. 1014, 1015, 1055. Traje&t Bataro- 
rum, 1714. I have a Latirl diflertation in the prefs here, almoft 
printed off, containing an explication of a confiderable number of 
coins of Tyre and Sidon, with Phoenician legends upon them. 
(8) De Num. quibufd. Sam. et Pbcen. &£. Dijfert. p. 53 — 56. 
Oxon. 1750. 
(9) Pbilofoph. Tranfaft. Vol. xlix. p. 593— -607. 
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